In April 1970, the Beloit Historical Society made a resolution stating that a “pioneer schoolhouse” would be placed on the Hanchett- Bartlett Homestead located at 2149 St. Lawrence Ave. in Beloit, Wisconsin to honor the contributions of Miss Daisy W. Chapin to the education of children in Beloit. The one-room school house, built in 1850 on Colley Road, served students in the first through eighth grades through the 1920s. Ron Dougan who was a student and later a teacher at the school, moved the building across the field to his farm, donating it for use at the Beloit Historical Society in 1971. It was restored by the Beloit Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma during the early 1970s. In 1974, the schoolhouse was dedicated to Beloit educator Daisy Chapin in honor of her contributions to education in Beloit.

One-room schoolhouses were often the first structure built in new communities. It served to educate the settlers children during the weekdays, a community gathering place in the evenings for meetings and church services on Sundays.

In the early twentieth century, there were about 6200 one-room schoolhouses in Wisconsin. They provided education to all of the students within a rural community, preparing them for high-school. With the use of busing in the 1930s, transportation was easier and the one-room schoolhouses stopped being used. Over time many of these school houses were lost to nature and decay. The Chapin one-room schoolhouse owned by the Beloit Historical Society is intact, preserving an important part of American educational history.